ONE OF THE HIGH POINTS in the local art world for 2010 was Ras Akyem Ramsay receiving the NIFCA?Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, accompanied by a remarkable retro exhibition at the Grande Salle. All made possible through the Collectors Club and The Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.
So here we are in 2011. And January doesn’t lack for new shows . . .
Barbadian sculptor Ras Ilix opens his extraordinary Heartman at Queen’s Park on Sunday, and the National Cultural Foundation cordially invites you to be there from 6:30 p.m.
In Speightstown, also on Sunday, there’s also Aeonian Vista, a particular epoch captured by Denzil Mann opening at the Gallery of Caribbean Art. Time may have rewritten every line but Denzil preserves it beautifully. Opening reception from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.; ends January 27.
The Aweipo Gallery’s An All Female Cast show continues to February 5 with their Artists’ Talk set for January 22, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Heidi Berger teams up with Bill Grace and Alison Chapman-Andrews at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, what used to be Sherbourne, show concludes by January 29.
Still on at the Errol Barrow Centre For Creative Imagination is Petra Toyin’s Embryonic Mushroom Exhibition, which is running until the 20th of this month.
Looking Up opens at the Oral Care Centre on January 12 as they celebrate their tenth anniversary. Artists on show will include Kraig Yearwood, Leslie Taylor, Juliana Inniss, Martina Pile, Kenneth Blackman and Adrian Richards.
An exhibition of art from the H. Richard Sonis and Nancy S. K. Sonis Collection will be on display at the Barbados Museum from January 10 to February 27. Entitled Homecoming, it’s curated by Allison Callender to display work from this significant collection, which was recently donated to the museum.
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